By M. Giant
With Henry Taylor in Colonel Dubaku's clutches, the president has until the top of the hour to back out of Sangala and hand over Matobo before Dubaku kills Henry. Taylor knows she can't give in to save her own husband after sacrificing hundreds of other Americans. Fortunately for her, Kiefer and Walker and Buchanan have just delivered Matobo to her and are still in the Oval Office when Dubaku's call comes in. So Kiefer offers to help find Henry before the deadline expires. Walker figures the only way to do that is by bringing in Moss, who's pretty happy to learn that Walker's alive, but not happy to see that Kiefer's enlisting Walker in a bid to get Vossler to flip on Dubaku by threatening his family. Still, he gives in and helps Kiefer find Vossler while Walker's a total asshole to Vossler's wife and kid (not much else going on at the FBI, except that Janis knows about Sean's affair with Erica and Sean's suspicious about why the threat level is dropping without any official word about Dubaku or the CIP device). Kiefer does get Henry's location from Vossler before killing him in self-defense. Meanwhile, Buchanan organizes an operation to make it look like they're about to hand over Matobo, but he's only a decoy. Which is good, because the decoy gets blown up. Dubaku's got other problems: his girlfriend's nosy sister has been looking into his immigration status, and knows he's not who he says he is. She tries to blackmail him into dumping the girlfriend, but all that means is that Dubaku's outside the hideout on his way to deal with her when Kiefer and Walker storm the place. And Kiefer gets there just in time to prevent one of Dubaku's henchmen from shooting Henry -- almost.
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